Music is a con­stant pres­ence in our home. The tele­vi­sion is sel­dom on, but you can almost always hear a song. My mother’s fam­i­ly is very musi­cal, so we grew up with music around us all the time. Mom sings in two dif­fer­ent choirs, and my sib­lings and I all grew up singing. Katie is grown now, but the last time she was in town we sang one of her favorite lul­la­bies togeth­er.